I had a DNS-323 for a few days. Firmware bugs and limited functionality
swayed me away from it so I returned it. For the money I have had a much
better experience with a Foxconn Atom processor box I picked up on
newegg.ca. It holds two drives, cost me less money than the 323 and has
a small power footprint but it can run any intel OS I like and stomps
all over the 323 in the performance category.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119024
With 2GB of ram I believe I ended up paying around $140 + shipping. Then
I simply installed a couple of WD caviar green hard disks and loaded
FreeBSD-8.x. Now I have a 64 bit ZFS NAS with USB ports and a 32 bit PCI
slot. The machine is very capable as a server, I even used it to host a
ZFS raidz of 14 fibre channel disks (covered here:
http://www.sysop.ca/?p=208).
On 03/06/2011 12:40 AM, TekBudda wrote:
With Office Depot closing I have had my eye on a D-Link 323 to use as
a NAS instea dof my original plan of a PC with OpenNas or similar on
it. A new candidate has now poked him head up in teh form of a
Seagate GoFlex Home Network Storage System. I know Gustin has
mentioned some stuff about the D-link in the past, but I wondered what
others thought about the various options or any ideas.
Moistly just looking for a certalized storage for windows mac& linux
data (mixture of all sorts) prefeably over Gigbit network. Access
from outside the network would be awesome& possibly streaming media
would be cool also. Eventually setting up a Linux server with
OpenLDAP (or similar ) for authentication& such, so wouldn't
necessarily need that.
Might be looking at buying this weekend so....
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